Cheung Chau Island Events Calendar 2027
Cheung Chau's 2027 calendar is firm at the front and thin at the back, and that is worth knowing before you plan around it. Saiyuen, the island's camp and outdoor-education operator, has published dates into February; the temple days and the two big festivals are fixed by the lunar calendar and confirmed against the Hong Kong Observatory's conversion table, which fixes them years ahead. Everything below is either an organiser's published date or a lunar date. January has a page of its own, the only month with three or more dated entries; every other month is set out here in full, with a line saying what its organisers have and have not published.
January 2027
- Saturday, January 9 — HK Wingfoil Grand Prix, Round 13. The season opener; venue still to be confirmed by the organiser, and not an island fixture.
- Sunday, January 10 — Macro Ecology Photography Workshop, Saiyuen. 14:30–17:00, ages 6 and up with a parent, HK$560 for two, HK$680 for three.
- Sunday, January 24 — Surviving with Parents, Saiyuen. 14:30–17:00, ages 4 and up with a parent, HK$560 for two, HK$780 for three.
📋 Read the full January 2027 page — dates, times, fees and booking
February 2027
Survival on a Deserted Island — Saiyuen STEAM Exploration Camp
📅 Wednesday, February 10 – Friday, February 12, 2027 (3 days, 2 nights)
Ages 8–10, HK$3,288 per child, with an early-bird HK$2,988 for registrations on or before 31 December 2026. Meeting and dismissal at Central Pier 5, with the 8:20am departure and 5:30pm return marked tentative by the organiser. Three days of the island's outdoor programme, and the only 2027 island date carried by both the operator and an independent listing.
📍 Saiyuen, DD CC Lot 12, Sai Wan (meet at Central Pier 5)
Lunar New Year
📅 Saturday, February 6 – Tuesday, February 9, 2027
New Year's Day falls on Saturday 6 February and the holidays run through Tuesday 9 February — the second day falls on a Sunday, so the gazette puts the substitution on the fourth day. Expect the temples to be busy from the first morning, and plan the ferry back before the afternoon peak. Lion troupes working the shopfronts are general Hong Kong custom rather than a published island programme, so treat them as something you may run into, not something to schedule.
📍 Island-wide; Yuk Hui Temple on Pak She Street is two minutes from the pier
Also on, in February 2027: The macro photography workshop runs again on Sunday 14 February 2027, 14:30–17:00, HK$560 for a two-person family and HK$680 for three — Saiyuen's own programme. Surviving with Parents runs again on Sunday 21 February 2027, same hours, HK$560 for two and HK$780 for three.
Facility note: Cheung Chau Sports Ground is partially closed for refurbishment up to and including 5 February 2027 (running track, soccer pitch, put ring, long-jump sand pit, spectator stand with seats). LCSD publishes no reopening date.
March 2027
Hung Shing Festival
📅 Saturday, March 20, 2027
The 13th day of the second lunar month, kept at the island's Hung Shing Temple on Chung Hing Street — one of Cheung Chau's eight big temples, three minutes from the ferry, and a building most visitors walk straight past. Open daily 07:00–17:00.
📍 Hung Shing Temple (洪聖古廟), 1A Chung Hing Street
Date fixed by the lunar calendar; the 2027 programme has not been published yet.
Kwun Yam's Birthday
📅 Friday, March 26, 2027
The first of the year's four Kwun Yam days at Shui Yuet Kung, the temple in the bamboo above Kwun Yam Wan. The committee makes sea offerings for the safety of swimmers, and the Kwun Yam image inside is the original — the building itself was rebuilt in 1958 and carries no heritage grading.
📍 Shui Yuet Kung (水月宮), hillside above Kwun Yam Wan
Date fixed by the lunar calendar; the 2027 programme has not been published yet.
April 2027
Sai Wan Tin Hau Festival
📅 Wednesday, April 21 – Sunday, April 25, 2027 · main day Saturday, April 24
Five days of Cantonese opera in a bamboo mat-shed theatre at Sai Wan, with floral shrines and a procession on the main Saturday. Free to walk into, and without the Jiao's ferry crush. The troupe booking appears on art-mate.net nearer the date.
📍 Sai Wan, west side of the village, about 8 minutes from the pier
Date fixed by the lunar calendar; the 2027 programme has not been published yet.
Tin Hau's Birthday
📅 Thursday, April 29, 2027
The 23rd day of the third lunar month, five days after the Sai Wan jiao closes. The main observance is at Pak She Tin Hau Temple, two to three minutes north-west of the Pak Tai Temple; Nam Tam and Tai Shek Hau have their own Tin Hau temples. Sai Wan is not part of this day — it keeps its own five-day jiao on 21–25 April.
📍 Pak She Tin Hau Temple (北社天后廟), Pak She San Tsuen
Date fixed by the lunar calendar; the 2027 programme has not been published yet.
May 2027
Cheung Chau Jiao Festival (Bun Festival)
📅 Monday, May 10 – Friday, May 14, 2027 · main day Thursday, May 13
Five days, fixed by the lunar calendar: paper gods and bun towers go up at Pak Tai Temple, the village kitchens go meat-free, and the main day brings the Piu Sik parade in the afternoon and the bun scrambling at midnight — an opening ceremony at about 11:30pm on the 13th, then the competition running into the small hours of Friday the 14th. The main day is also Buddha's Birthday, a general holiday. Start times are not published yet — the 2026 parade moved off at about 1:30pm — so confirm them nearer the date.
📍 Pak Tai Temple, Pak She Street, and the surrounding lanes, two minutes from the pier
🌐 More Information: Cheung Chau Bun Festival 2027
The Vegetarian Period (齋戒)
📅 Tuesday, May 11 – Thursday, May 13, 2027
Three days with no meat in the village's restaurants and bakeries, ending as the Piu Sik parade passes on the afternoon of the main day, when the kitchens return to meat. No start time is published — accounts date the opening to the 開光 rite on the evening the festival begins.
📍 Village-wide
🌐 More Information: Cheung Chau vegetarian food guide
June 2027
Tuen Ng (Dragon Boat Festival)
📅 Wednesday, June 9, 2027
The island races its own boats in the Cheung Chau Typhoon Shelter on the festival day, five minutes from the pier — the island's own races rather than a city regatta, and a much shorter walk than Stanley. The festival date is gazetted and does not move; the race notice is published four to six weeks ahead, so no start time is available yet.
📍 Cheung Chau Typhoon Shelter
🌐 More Information: Tuen Ng on Cheung Chau
July 2027
Thursday 1 July 2027 is HKSAR Establishment Day, a general holiday. No Cheung Chau programme has been published for the day, and Saiyuen has not posted its summer sessions for 2027 yet.
August 2027
Nothing is dated for August 2027 yet. Saiyuen has not posted a summer programme, and no other island organiser publishes an August date.
September 2027
Mid-Autumn Festival
📅 Wednesday, September 15, 2027 (the general holiday is the day after, Thursday 16 September)
Hong Kong's Mid-Autumn is a lantern crowd in Victoria Park; Cheung Chau's is a beach with a few hundred families and the moon over a fishing harbour. Families take tables down to Tung Wan, and the beach is a short walk from the pier. Bring a lantern, not a ticket.
📍 Tung Wan Beach
October 2027
Chung Yeung Festival
📅 Friday, October 8, 2027
The island's autumn walking day. Chung Yeung is when Hong Kong climbs a hill; on Cheung Chau the hill is the Mini Great Wall path along the south coast, with sea stacks and the north lookout, and it is usually empty at 8am.
📍 Mini Great Wall trailheads above Kwun Yam Wan, about 12 minutes from the pier
18th IDBF World Dragon Boat Racing Championships
📅 Sunday, October 17 – Sunday, October 24, 2027 (eight days)
The world championships come back to the city where modern international dragon-boat racing began, 30 years after Hong Kong last hosted them in 1997. Kwun Tong Promenade, hosted by the Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association; the racing days within the eight-day window had not been published when this page was written. Worth adding two days in Kowloon to an island trip only if you follow the sport — it is a ferry-and-MTR trip, not a Cheung Chau event.
📍 Kwun Tong Promenade, Kowloon (about 90 minutes to two hours from Cheung Chau)
November 2027
Nothing is dated for November 2027 yet. The seasonal festival programme that filled November 2026 has not been announced for 2027.
December 2027
Saturday 25 December and Monday 27 December 2027 are general holidays. Saiyuen has not published a Christmas programme for 2027, so there is no island date to plan around yet.